When Do You Think Sims 4 Will End?

"drake_mccarty;c-16296658" wrote:

"DeservedCriticism;c-16296310" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-16295963" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-16295125" wrote:

"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16294989" wrote:
Saw this on Twitter this morning:

https://twitter.com/EA/status/958761839206133760

What is FY 18Q3..? (I'm not surprised by the way, Rodiek already stated Sims 4 had a rocky start)

p.s.: Sorry, happens to me often, staring at something in complete confusion, then think 'heck, I'm gonna ask' and as soon as I have, bingo, I get it: federal year 2018 quarter 3. Not that I totally understand now, cause that means from July 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018. That's like... in the future...?

FY2018 started in April of 2017, and will end March of this year.

With the rerelease of the base game on PS4 and XB1 it’s not surprising that there’s a jump in players. There’s no way to cross reference PC ownership but there’s probably a lot of overlap, but that’s really going beyond the message EA was trying to convey in it’s report.

Thank you, that explains a lot. So it is their EPs that have the 35% increase.

Not exactly what I was saying. A 35% increase to the active players would be talking about those who bought The Sims 4 base game on console. The PC game is definitely not moving at that rate, it’s almost 4 years old.

But by your own stat where you say their fiscal year starts in April, that would put the console release (September) in Quarter 2, no? The EP release and console release aren't in the same quarters. It's fully possible their fiscal Q3 indeed involves September, but based on what you said above, their quarters would be Q1: April-May-June, Q2: July-August-September, Q3: October-November-December, Q4: January-February-March.